Burren Skies

Wow!!!
What a night and what a SKY!!!

People - let em tell you - if you are into this hobby
then you HAVE GOT to get yourself along to the Burren.
It truly is awesome.
Dave, Dennis and I made it up last night (the 5th) and we were blown away
by the quality of the seeing.
The air was still for the most part - no jet stream and no moon.

I brought up the club scope and Dennis made good use of it.
Dave went through a lot of the objects in Cygnus and under last
nights conditions you could have stayed there for days!!
(I'll let Dave do a more detailed report)

I took some shots as always...
One cool thing to see was the ISS through the 12''.
here you can see it crossing the sky twords the setting moon and Jupiter.


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The northern aspect of the site is lit by light pollution from Galway but
it's nice a s a tool to get a silhouette

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The Pleiades were rising so I shot them, 7 x 3min exposures stacked.
the nebulosity came out pretty good.
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The Double Cluster looked very clear and lots of colorful stars could be made out - some very red ones.
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And here is an image that Dave gave me the idea for.
Basically it's to try and give you the sense of our galaxy the Milky Way
leading off out into space twords the Andromeda galaxy....

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Very nice.

Was out shooting the Milky Way myself last night. Any pointers on how to really make it pop in post processing?

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Lovely shots guys, it was a really good night in Bray also. I was out observing all the usual suspects in my 15X70 binos.
It,s great to see the winter constellations rising.
Fingers crossed for another bright winter comet or two.

Deirdre Kelleghan
PRO IFAS
President IAS

Are they unprocessed as it stands?
can you load up / link / email me a full rez
of one of them and I can have a go then give you the steps?

Glad you enjoyed yourselves lads, the skies last night were superb in Cavna also, I got some pics as well, but still have to go through them.

The milkyway was fantastic!

Keith..